Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Migrating from rsync to rdiff-backup

[Wiebe Cazemier]

Piotr Nowacki wrote:
> Hi,
> I have been using rsync to copy data between remote sites,
> so I have most of my data already copied.
> Is there any way to create rdiff-backup metadata of existing bacup
> done wiyh rsync, and then to continue using rdiff-backup to make 
> differentail backups.
> The problem is amount of data (over 30GB) over slow and unreliable adsl link.
> Regards
> Piotr

There is no standard way, but what you could do is run rdiff-backup on the 
destination machine, to make a backup of the rsync-archive to another location 
on the same machine. When that's done, you should be able to run rdiff-backup 
from the source-machine to the newly created rdiff-backup archive.